[Samba] WINS Replication

[Andrew Bartlett]

Jan van Rensburg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> We have 2 offices linked with a slow (64kb/s) link. They each have a
> samba server and a NT 4 DC. The NT servers also handle all the printing
> and domain logons. The samba servers are mostly just file servers.
> 
> Site 1: The samba server handles WINS for everyone
> Site 2: The NT server is not on the LAN (on a different subnet)
> 
> We had a situation last week where the link between the two sites went
> down and no domain logons and printing were available on site 2, because
> the NT server is on a different subnet, and the WINS server could not be
> reached.
> 
> So, is there a way to replicate the WINS database between the two sites
> and configure the WINS server on site 2 as a backup?

Samba HEAD (3.0 alpha) has this capability, but I'm not sure how well it
works as I've not used it myself.

Andrew Bartlett

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